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Leases. Contracts.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Contracts by which one conveys land or other property for a specified time usually for compensation or rent.

Found in 272 Collections and/or Records:

Papers relating to the estates of the Duke of Argyll in Mull, Morvern and Tiree., 1751-1760, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.17678
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Lord Milton was responsible for the 3rd Duke of Argyll's personal and household expenses in Scotland; and had a general oversight of his Scottish estates, collaborating with his Edinburgh lawyer, Archibald Campbell of Succoth, Writer to the Signet. The earlier papers are mainly personal and household accounts, and papers concerning the property of The Whim in Peeblesshire; after his succession to the Dukedom in 1743 the family estates in Argyllshire, Stirlingshire, and Dumbartonshire are...
Dates: 1751-1760, undated.

Papers relating to the trust of John Willison (died 1884), containing correspondence and legal records., 1871-1919.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.11049/20-23
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Papers of the Willison family, who farmed in both Lanarkshire and Perthshire, covering personal and business matters. The collection includes a detailed family history and genealogy composed by Ralph Willison Simmonds (Edinburgh 1989), detailed transcripts and a booklet with historical notes: The Willisons of South Lanarkshire (Edinburgh, 1994), also by Mr Willison - see Acc.11049/1 and Acc.11049/76.

Dates: 1871-1919.

Papers relating to the trust of John Willison (died 1884), containing leases for Kingarth., 1891-1901.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11049/21
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Papers of the Willison family, who farmed in both Lanarkshire and Perthshire, covering personal and business matters. The collection includes a detailed family history and genealogy composed by Ralph Willison Simmonds (Edinburgh 1989), detailed transcripts and a booklet with historical notes: The Willisons of South Lanarkshire (Edinburgh, 1994), also by Mr Willison - see Acc.11049/1 and Acc.11049/76.

Dates: 1891-1901.

Photographic copies of some family papers of Mr and Mrs Thomas Adams, Alloway, relating chiefly to Mrs Adams’ great-great-uncle, the Reverend Donald Stewart (1803-1831).

 File
Identifier: MS.14952
Scope and Contents The Reverend Donald Stewart, a native of the Loch Earn district of Perthshire, was a minister of St Mark’s, Demerara, from his arrival 29 April 1831 to his death seven months later. The contents are as follows.(i) Lease of Lednascriden, Balquhidder, 1776 (folio 1);(ii) Letter of Donald Stewart, Georgetown, 30 April 1831, to his father and brother, both John Stewart, Findglen, Loch Earn. A further letter, dated Georgetown, 2 May 1831, is cross-written on...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1776, 1831, undated

Regality of Dunfermline., 1587-1753.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Ch.12357-12445
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Papers deemed unsuitable for inclusion in the MS. bound series.

Dates: 1587-1753.

Registration of tack by Thomas Inglis to Douglas Baillie., 1668.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.8454
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The documents are mostly marriage-contracts, burgess-tickets, and similar documents concerning members of the Dunlop family in the 17th and 18th centuries. Three items concern William Dunlop`s affairs in South Carolina, 1688-1689 (Ch.8456-8458). An inventory is available.

Dates: 1668.

Rental of the Regality of Dunfermline., Late 17th century.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.12361
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Papers deemed unsuitable for inclusion in the MS. bound series.

Dates: Late 17th century.

Seredunt-book of the tutors of Agnes Murray Kynynmound, 1742-1746, with conditions of roup of the tack of the house and policies of Easter Lochgelly, 1742., 1742-1746.

 Item
Identifier: MS.13256
Scope and Contents From the Series: The estate papers for the Roxburghshire, Fife, and Angus possessions of the Elliots of Minto provide a very full account of the history of these lands from the middle of the eighteenth century until the First World War. In particular the correspondence of the successive heads of the family with their factors and Edinburgh lawyers covers every aspect of estate management.The papers relating to Minto contain little material from before 1696, the year in which Sir Gilbert Elliot,...
Dates: 1742-1746.

Strathkinness: tack., 1668.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.1070
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The deeds are arranged under country, county, and smaller unit, the smaller unit being either the subject of the conveyance or a covering unit mentioned in the document. They are indexed under the names of the smaller units and also, in the case of Scotland, under the names of the parties.

Dates: 1668.

Tack-book relating to the Dundas estate., 1787-1808.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.80.4.13
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The papers, with some exceptions, have been arranged in the following categories:Adv.MSS.80.1.1-80.1.18: Correspondence.80.2.1-80.2.66: Financial papers.80.3.1-80.3.57: Account books.80.4.1-80.4.16: Miscellaneous estate papers.80.5.1-80.5.6: Legal papers.80.6.1-80.6.14: Notes and notebooks of George Dundas of Dundas, Advocate.80.7.1-80.7.14: Miscellaneous papers and books.The main exceptions are...
Dates: 1787-1808.

Tack-book relating to the Dundas estate., 1833-1850.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.80.4.14
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The papers, with some exceptions, have been arranged in the following categories:Adv.MSS.80.1.1-80.1.18: Correspondence.80.2.1-80.2.66: Financial papers.80.3.1-80.3.57: Account books.80.4.1-80.4.16: Miscellaneous estate papers.80.5.1-80.5.6: Legal papers.80.6.1-80.6.14: Notes and notebooks of George Dundas of Dundas, Advocate.80.7.1-80.7.14: Miscellaneous papers and books.The main exceptions are...
Dates: 1833-1850.

Tack-books relating to the Dundas estate., 1787-1808, 1833-1850.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.80.4.13-80.4.14
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The papers, with some exceptions, have been arranged in the following categories:Adv.MSS.80.1.1-80.1.18: Correspondence.80.2.1-80.2.66: Financial papers.80.3.1-80.3.57: Account books.80.4.1-80.4.16: Miscellaneous estate papers.80.5.1-80.5.6: Legal papers.80.6.1-80.6.14: Notes and notebooks of George Dundas of Dundas, Advocate.80.7.1-80.7.14: Miscellaneous papers and books.The main exceptions are...
Dates: 1787-1808, 1833-1850.

Tack by Adam Bothwell, Bishop of Orkney, Commendator of Holyroodhouse in favour of Sir Archibald Napier of the teind sheaves of Merchiston., 1571.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.B.10
Scope and Contents

Partly printed in `Memoirs of John Napier of Merchiston` where the tack is dated 24th October, instead of 24th December.

Dates: 1571.

Tack by Alexander Scott, with consent of Elizabeth Hodge his spouse, to James Cairnye, George Broun, Patrick Douglas, Henrie Young, baxters, Isabell Hunter, and others, of the bakehouse etc in Gray`s Close. (21)., 28 May 1600.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.5964
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Comprised of:

Ch.5946-5975: a group of thirty deeds and notarial extracts formerly part of a larger collection of documents, numbered between 1 and at least 33 (but originally not chronologically arranged), relating to properties in the High Street, Edinburgh;

Ch.5976-5990: a group of mostly unrelated documents of a miscellaneous nature arranged in a separate chronological sequence.

An inventory is available.

Dates: 28 May 1600.

Tack by Andrew, Commendator of Jedburgh and Restennet, to Mr William Cairncross of Balmaschanar of the teinds of Balmaschanar., 7 July 1589.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.14329
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Sir George Fletcher, advocate, a younger son of Robert of Innerpeffer, was one of his commissioners and acquired the lands of Restennet in 1627. The first two documents, the earliest in the collection, are the foundation charter of the Priory by Malcolm IV and its confirmation by the Bishop of St Andrews.

Dates: 7 July 1589.

Tack by Andrew Fletcher of Milton S.C.J. to the British Linen Company of the bleachfield of Saltoun., 14 February 1763.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.14635
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Sir Andrew Fletcher of Innerpeffer purchased Saltoun and Glencorse in 1642; Glencorse was sold in 1647. The documents concern both the estate and individual members of the family.

Dates: 14 February 1763.

Tack by Gabriel Guthrie, provost and parson of Guthrie, son of Alexander Guthrie of Guthrie, of Guthrie, and the said Alexander Guthrie to Thomas Guthrie, elder, of Hilton and his wife Agnes Auchterlony of the teinds of Hilton of Guthrie., 5 June 1568.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.14171
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

The earlier documents relate mainly to Guthrie of Petmowis and the lands of Stotfaulds and others in Monikie, the later to Guthrie of Guthrie and the lands of Hilton and Langlands of Guthrie, which were acquired by Lindsay of Balgays in 1603. There are also documents concerning the Collegiate Church of Guthrie (of which Guthrie of Guthrie was patron) and Innerpeffer (sold to Robert Fletcher in 1596).

Dates: 5 June 1568.

Tack by George, Earl Marischal (succeeded 1670) in favour of Alexander Barclay in Glasgow, of Glasgow mill in Dunnottar., 8 October 1687.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.17268
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Included are charters of Deer Abbey which passed to the family on the Reformation as the lordship of Altrie. Notes on these charters appear in Patrick Keith Murray`s `Inventory of Marischal Papers, 1905`, MS.21114.

Dates: 8 October 1687.